Charles John Allen (2 September 1862[1] – 1956) was a British sculptor, and a figure in the New Sculpture movement.

Born in Greenford, Middlesex,[2] Allen studied at the Lambeth School of Art[3] and then apprenticed with the London architectural sculpture firm Farmer & Brindley in 1879,[2] becoming the assistant to Hamo Thornycroft for four years.

In 1894 Allen moved to Liverpool, where he spent more than thirty years as a respected teacher at the University of Liverpool and Vice-Principal at the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Arts,[2] which became the Liverpool School of Art in 1905.

[3] Allen died in 1956 at Farley Green, Albury, Surrey, where he had lived with his sister since the death of his wife, shortly after his retirement from teaching.

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